Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
752
AUTHOR:
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–65)
QUOTATION:
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
ATTRIBUTION:
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, governor of Illinois, speech before the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California, September 11, 1952.—Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, p. 31 (1952).
